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...becomes this totally marginalized activity, there's room for us marginal types in it." Chris Ware, ever the pessimist, pointed out that "the problem is that [comix] always end up in this section called 'graphic novels' which some bookstores don't even have so they end up in 'Science Fiction,' or even worse, with 'Role Playing Games.' I can't go into bookstores any more because if you see [your book] it's always in that section, or else you don't see it. Either way it's depressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Comix Panel | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

...isn’t what some ethnic studies advocates are calling for. Yeh argues that the Committee on Ethnic Studies should notify students of courses “in Afro-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American Studies,” not on the role of identity in European fiction. However, he also sees ethnic studies as examining “the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality”—categories that recommend a general approach, rather than a handful of departments divided along ethnic lines...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: A Different ‘Ethnic Studies’ | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

Someone with the pen name Christina Kallilli, who describes herself as a high school sophomore from Boston, wrote this breathless fiction, and she wants the world to read it. Well, a certain kind of world, anyway: fellow members of a literary subculture that exploded online in recent years and is especially flourishing at www.fanfiction.net Just in the past 18 months or so, FFN, which launched in late 1998, has attracted tens of thousands of teenagers who like to read and write fan fiction--stories based on celebrities (such as JC from boy band 'N Sync) or popular characters from literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Learning Corner: Pop Fiction | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...Ambassador Barbara Bodine opposed the FBI's decision to pull out last June, arguing that embassy security measures were sufficient to protect the agents. Bureau officials refused to bend, insisting the ambassador only wanted the agents in country to preserve the fiction that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was backing the investigation. In fact, Bodine and FBI on-the-ground supervisor John O'Neill clashed so heatedly whenever O'Neill wanted Bodine to press Saleh for help that Bodine refused to allow O'Neill to return to Yemen after he left the country around December 2000. O'Neill retired from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Puts Down Stakes in Yemen | 3/2/2002 | See Source »

...Kennedy?s collection of patriotic poems, song lyrics, historical documents and speeches. These non-newsy collections are a boon for journalists, who get access to the normally inaccessible Kennedy. Her last book, "The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis" spent many weeks near the top of the NYT fiction list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: The Biography Edition | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

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